Tuesday, May 21, 2013

We Only Care If It's Women

Maybe it’s perfectly natural to expect the gender differences by
academic discipline that are represented in the chart above, and maybe
we should give up trying to socially engineer perfect gender parity for
each academic field. And when there is so much concern about female
under-representation in some of the STEM fields like engineering and
computer science, where is the concern about male under-representation
in the STEM field of biology, where is the concern about the significant
male under-representation in female-dominated fields like health
professions, public administration, education and psychology, and where
is the concern about the gender imbalance favoring women for college
degrees in general at all levels – associate’s degrees, bachelor’s
degrees, master’s degrees and doctoral degrees?

I often think about how men are silenced these days on anything having
to do with gender issues. I received an email from a male reader who is
concerned about the same thing: he is told he is a “rape apologist” for
even suggesting that men might be unfairly accused of rape. Here is his
letter....